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Issue 20, Spring 2001

William A. McEachern, Editor

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John Kane of SUNY-Oswego provides a useful listing of online economics textbooks (http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/newbooks.htm). An online text should allow the reader to interact with the material in some dynamic way. So far, we don't have much of that, at least in the public domain. Still, here are two of the best online introductory texts.

Roger McCain's Essential Principles of Economics: A Hypermedia Text, second revised draft (http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/prin/txt/EcoToC.html), is based on lecture notes from his course at Drexel University. The most recent version includes 31 chapters, each with interactive multiple-choice review questions. Professor McCain's presentation appears thoughtful and comprehensive but, aside from the multiple-choice questions, he really doesn't take much advantage of the interactive setting. The presentation is fairly linear, offering the reader little opportunity to jump around once into a chapter.

CyberEconomics: A Semi-Interactive, Almost-Multimedia Way to Learn Economics (http://ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu/econ/TitlePage.html) is by Robert Schenk, of St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana. The 29 topics conform roughly to a conventional principles textbook. Professor Schenk notes "This material began its life as a printed textbook which I worked on for most of the 1980s. Though I still think it was one of the better textbooks available, no one else did." Topics, terms, and names link to other parts of the book. The online version once included interactive questions, but they have moved to a CD version, which is now for sale.

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